After rising to the top spot in 2011 and third last year, Ohio University now ranks as the
seventh-best party school in part because of its famous Halloween celebration that draws as many as
30,000 students and out-of-towners to Athens. Miami, which placed ninth last year, is now16th.

OU, in particular, has been trying to shed its party-school image for years and in March
reported a 15 percent drop in binge and other high-risk drinking.

The University of Iowa tops the party-school list this year, followed by the University of
California, Santa Barbara; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University and
Syracuse University in New York.

On the flip side, topping the Princeton Review's 20 sober schools list are Brigham Young
University in Utah; Wheaton College in Illinois; College of the Ozarks in Missouri; Thomas Aquinas
College in California and the West Point.